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by jgrahamc 4439 days ago
But isn't what's happening here a change to the coding style to match the style used by BSD? That might be fun for BSD coders, but is that actually helping improve the OpenSSL code?
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gkya 4439 days ago
Well, that'd be useless to move from tabs to spaces or from n spaces to m spaces in this context, but as far as I've observed, OpenSSL codebase uses the unconventional Whitesmiths style [1][2][3], which might be a burden on the developers to navigate.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indent_style#Whitesmiths_style

[2] http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/lib/libssl/src/cry...

[3] http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/lib/libssl/src/cry...

edit: formatting

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mfwoods 4439 days ago
I don't think they intend to contribute back to the original OpenSSL code base, but see this as a OpenBSD only fork.
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clarry 4439 days ago
It might not help upstream OpenSSL, unless they keep an eye out for the bug fixes. Consider OpenBSD the upstream for this new fork.
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feld 4439 days ago
man style

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=style&apropos=0...

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